Two Reactions To The Sotu

Two Reactions To The Sotu

1. Last nighttime President Obama continued his misleading claims about Warren Buffett's taxation rate.  mankiw-on-taxes/">David Leonhardt recalls that I rebutted those claims several years ago. 

David usefully asks for a response to my rebuttal from the Center on Budget together with Policy Priorities, a liberal-leaning enquiry grouping inwards Washington. Chuck Marr, the center’s manager of federal taxation policy, emailed David back.  Click through the link above, together with read carefully what Mr Marr has to say.  Does it respond to my arguments?  No, non at all.  Mr Marr but changes the subject.  He follows the age-old advice for politicians: Don't answer the interrogation they asked, answer the interrogation you lot wishing they had asked.  This mightiness operate for some voters, but I am certain it won't for the careful analysts who read this blog.  One might reasonably cause got Mr Marr's non-response equally an admission that President Obama's claims about the taxes of Mr Buffett together with his secretarial assistant don't concur upwards nether closer examination.

2. I was disappointed, and fifty-fifty a fleck surprised, that the President adopted the xenophobic approach to outsourcing together with international trade.  Usually, on issues of international trade, the President plays the purpose of grown-up together with leaves it upwards to Congress to gin upwards populist ire.  That is truthful of both parties.  Recall that President Clinton pushed NAFTA through.

When President Obama bragged that his management had substantially increased merchandise cases against Communist People's Republic of China compared amongst his predecessor, it made me proud to endure 1 of President Bush's advisers.  (Not that the Bush management was perfect on merchandise issues.  It is just expert to know nosotros were better.)  These merchandise cases include such things equally anti-dumping claims, which inwards many cases are but the modern facial expression upwards of protectionism.  Phill Swagel together with I wrote most anti-dumping laws here.
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